Approaching 600 dead this year so far.
With any luck, might become 601 if all state security protection officers stay at home while Trump gives his State of the Union speech.
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The USA Domestic Gun Deaths Body Count
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Posted 1 year ago # -
With 2,896 gun deaths, including 61 mass shootings, in the USA in the last two and a half months NZ has still got a lot of catching up to do...
Posted 1 year ago # -
That is an impressive stat MD. Or depressive perhaps. Shows how the news attention to sensational events can miss the really big story happening every day.
I was wondering what the score was, having had a soft spot for this ghoulish game ever since I won the prediction competition (oops did I mention that I won? silly old me!)
But now I wish I didn't know...
Posted 1 year ago # -
It does seem there has been an increase in mass shootings due to religious extremists. If there's a definite link to Trump's divisive rhetoric that's hard to prove, but as a popular role model for the poor and oppressed, he's making no attempt to ease the problem.
Posted 9 months ago # -
It’s not about the trends, it’s about the actual numbers. Every day on average in 2019, 42 people were killed by gun violence. Every day on average, one person shot and injured or killed at least four people using a gun. The only incidents that made the news were those involving nutjobs ‘going postal’ in schools and festivals. All other incidents are just considered to be normal everyday occurrences.
Posted 8 months ago # -
How do the number of gun deaths in the US compare with the number of knife killings in other countries?
Am I right in thinking that it isn't just a case of affluence, with so many more people being able to afford guns in the US that they don't bother to stab people instead? And that shooting so much easier to do without thinking that the actual overall murder rate is higher in the US than elsewhere?
Posted 8 months ago # -
It'd be hard to quantify world wide knife killings and measure them against the US gun deaths.
The US 2nd Amendment gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms. Ordinary citizens of most other countries aren't given this kind of empowerment and have to work against the law to obtain a gun or to walk around with a knife.
It'd be interesting if the 2nd Amendment was scrapped followed by a gun amnesty to see if the death rate would come down. I suspect there'd be a very large initial spike followed by a generational decline. But it's never going to happen...
Posted 8 months ago # -
In terms of actual number of deaths by intentional homicide the top countries are relatively poor. In numbers the USA comes in at no 7 behind Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria & Venezuela. Obviously the bigger the population the greater the number.
When you look at deaths per capita the USA comes it at number 88 because there are lot of small but very violent republics mainly in the Americas and Africa.
At a glance it looks like poverty and violence go hand in hand. The USA does not have that excuse. Of the wealthy countries it stands out. The exception is South Africa but you could argue that SA is 2 countries, one wealthy and one desperately poor.
Russia scores slightly higher than the USA but it has fewer people to kill each other so lags 10,000 behind in the body count. Other than that the "civilised" nations kill far fewer than the USA.That Paradise place on the telly must be up there. There's a murder every week and hardly any population!
Posted 8 months ago # -
From an admittedly cursory glance at an admittedly small sample of the list of mass shootings, very few appear to be related to religious extremism or even race hate. Although motives are not routinely reported on the gunviolencearchive website, most appear to be some kind of vengeance against former workmates/friends/neighbours/relatives. I thought there would be more related to drugs and gangs and organised crime.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Its interesting to look at the stats per state. Unfortunately the ones I saw were per head so it's hard to make a clear conclusion. Way out ahead is DC. Is that because it's a small population compared to other states or do they just kill a lot? Anyway they win with over 40 murders per 100,000.
Posted 8 months ago #
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